ICD-10 & Coding

There are two ways of looking at upcoming compliance deadlines for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10, Healthcare IT News reported in March.

Katie Carolan, director of operations at Baltimore-based Health Record Services (HRS), spends a lot of time giving presentations at state American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) shows and talking to her own clients about the looming switch to ICD-10. How prepared are people to meet the October 2013 deadline?

The AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders) kicked off its “ICD-10 Will Change Everything” campaign in late summer, replete with tools, training, and a virtual floor plan displaying how every corner of a physicians practice will feel the impact.

Recently the ECRI Institute announced that it had added 4,000 new terms to the Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System, bringing the total to 24,544; many more, it said, were in the works.

Bonnie Cassidy, vice president of HIM product management at Reston, Va.-based QuadraMed and the president-elect of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), sat down with Healthcare IT News at AHIMA's 82nd annual convention and exhibit to talk about the importance of the health information management profession, and her vision for the future.

There will be no shortage of hot-button discussion topics at the 82nd annual convention and exhibition of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Orlando from Sept. 25-30.

While healthcare providers are making progress toward 5010 compliance, many are lagging behind the timeline set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to results from the HIMSS 5010/ICD-10 Industry Readiness survey.